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Opera
news

Adelaide Festival announces 2021 centrepiece

Neil Armfield’s staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will headline.

September 29, 2020
Classical Music, Opera, Vocal & Choral
features

Australian soprano ready to perform at yours

Eleanor Lyons and her conductor/pianist husband Vladimir Fanshil have formed LIVEATYOURS, a new project offering “micro-concerts” in people’s homes, which launches tonight.

June 17, 2020
Chamber, Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
features

Stripping back Handel’s Messiah

Sam Allchurch, AD of Sydney Chamber Choir, discusses staging the Messiah with chamber forces similar to those that Handel had at his disposal.

March 3, 2020
Classical Music, Opera
Live Review

Review: Fidelio (West Australian Symphony Orchestra)

A rousing and triumphantly optimistic experience.

March 2, 2020
Chamber, Classical Music
features

Day One at the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival

Ben Wilkie spends a day at the inaugural Bendigo Chamber Music Festival – and is mightily impressed by the programming and musicianship.

February 7, 2020
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Dvořák’s Requiem (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)

In Brett Weymark and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Dvořák’s rarely performed Requiem has found convincing advocates.

September 23, 2019
Classical Music, Opera
Live Review

Review: The Children’s Bach (Canberra International Music Festival)

The inclusion of Andrew Schultz's opera at CIMF was an inspired stroke.

May 11, 2019
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: St John Passion (Canberra International Music Festival)

A shaky start transforms into an evening of very fine music-making.

May 7, 2019
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: Handel’s Messiah (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

Does this treasured Christmas tradition need a little more TLC?

December 17, 2018
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
CD and Other Review

Review: Sacrifice (The Flowers of War, Christopher Latham)

Intriguing arrangements of music from the battlefields of World War I.

October 2, 2018
Live Review

Review: L’Enfance du Christ (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

Sir Andrew Davis breaks a nearly 50-year drought and brings MSO back to some beautiful Berlioz.

June 16, 2018
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
Live Review

Review: The Dream of Gerontius (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)

A heavenly accounting of Elgar's oratorio.

October 20, 2017
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera
Live Review

Review: The Healers (The Flowers of War)

This "pocket opera" is musically admirable but has yet to achieve its full potential.

October 15, 2017

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